Explore more quotes by Karl Barth

"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good."

Men, Will

"Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree."

God, Guests, Promise, Wood

"Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo."

Faith, God, Ideology, Nothing

"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."

Life, Expression, Grace

"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."

Church, Christ

"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."

Forgiveness, Christian

"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart."

God, Angels, May, Play

"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."

Religion, God, Teachers

"Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."

Life, Conscience

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

Gratitude, Joy

Exlpore more Faith quotes

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Faith, Building, Living, Risk

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Faith, God, Man

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Faith, God, Heart, Reason

"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Faith, Fame, Martyr, Prison, Tongue

"Fear clogs; faith liberates."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Faith, Fear

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Faith, Duty

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Faith, God

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Faith, God, People, Heart

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Faith, God, Heart, Will

"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Faith, God, Will